Biotronik Se Co. Kg

Biotronik Meβ-Und Therapiergeräte Gmbh & Co.

Gerhard Hahnke

Erhard Flach

Gernot Kolberg

Agur Junge

Siegfried Voigt

Kerstin Täubert

A guide wire for introducing an implantable electrode line, wherein the electrode line is particular a heart electrode line for intracardial sensing of cardiac actionpotentials and/or for electrical stimulation or defibrillation of the heart, and wherein the guide wire is adapted for interlocking with the electrode line, and wherein the guide wire comprises a deformation, in particular curved, wavy, V-shaped, zig-zag, or trapezoidal, enlarging the effective contact diameter of the guide wire to a value corresponding essentially to the inner diameter of a lumen of the electrode line or greater than this.

Guide wire and implantable electrode line

An epicardial electrode which is suitable, in particular, for use with a cardiac stimulation device, comprises an electrode body which has a stimulation surface adapted to bear against the cardiac tissue and to stimulate a part of the heart, that is to say a partial region of the heart, and at least one fixing element for fixing the stimulation surface to the cardiac tissue. The at least one fixing element is adapted for engagement into the cardiac tissue. The epicardial electrode can be secured to the outside and in particular to the outer skin of the cardiac muscle (epicardium) without being sewn to the cardiac muscle like a patch electrode. Only the fixing element has to be brought into engagement with the cardiac tissue.

Epicardial electrode

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Gerhard Hahnke